Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Since I survived the 80's and faded jeans the first time I feel it isn't prudent for me to repeat the trend again in my life. I stick to dark jeans these days and I always think it is a shame when my jeans are still in great shape but are faded to the point I just don't want to wear them anymore.

The other day I was in the dollar store buying buttons for the Suburban Prince's work shirts and while I was in line at the cash desk I saw a rack of boxes of fabric dye. Hmmmm. A light bulb went on and I added a package of dye to my buttons, got checked out and went home to dig out my faded jeans.

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It worked! It was so easy and now I have a 'brand new' pair of jeans! I have a few more pairs of jeans that are faded so I will pick up more dye and get them done too! Talk about shopping in my closet! Between this and my new seamstress my wardrobe is becoming very wearable these days!

***Update***

With all of the response to this I realised I should explain how I did this! We have a front loading washer so I just poured the powder in, put the jeans in, closed the door and ran the machine on HOT. No soap! No fabric softener!

Once the machine was finished going through the cycles I popped the jeans in the dryer on HOT until they were dry.

I put soap and lots of bleach in the washer and ran it. When it was finished I ran an extra cycle of just hot water to make sure everything was rinsed out. Yes it is a number of cycles but if you were to dye a few pairs of jeans at once it makes it worth it.

I plan to make sure the next couple of loads are very dark clothes - navy blue, black etc so the machine should be back to normal after that should there be any dye residue still in it.

I'm literally ecstatic you posted about this! I have a pair of really cute jeans I bought online a while back that I thought were a lot darker than they actually are.. and since they were on clearance, I couldn't return them. I've been pissed about it ever since. I never even thought to dye them, but I'm totally going to do it. Thanks!!

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